Quotes on Architectural Management

Today, the scope for architects is enormous but their management skills are weak to grab these opportunities. I strongly believe that we all ambitious architects must react immediately and win over our past roles as master builders!- Ar.Kiran Gandhi

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It's time we architects blow our own trumpet and get noticed for what we do.

It's time we architects deliver the best of our knowledge and demand the best of returns.

It's time we architects master Management skills over and above the design skills.

Ar.Kiran Gandhi

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“No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.”

If you are an ambitious architect, begin to work upon your dream of starting your own business today.

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“A business plan is a road map that gives direction to a business." says Joseph Mancuso

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‘I find myself intolerant of management books that seek to prescribe exactly’ how it is done’. My own experience shows that there are many different way of achieving one’s aims and many different ways of leading an industrial company……

…..each one of us has to develop our own style, and our own approach, using such skills and personal qualities as we have inherited. What each of does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve’

( haevey – jones 1988)

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Yes, nowadays architects very much desire money and understand it to prove themselves

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Marketing architectural services is not a new or distasteful word to a new generation architects. They live in an era of globalization, perhaps the best phase of civilization. It’s the right time to make changes at grass- root level. If architecture students are sufficiently exposed to management concepts at educational level, I am sure; we will witness unprecedented architectural marvels.  Ar. Kiran Gandhi

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They call it 'architectonic' to what we know as 'sensible'...

They call it 'didatic' to what we understand as ''illustrative'...

They call it 'discourse' to what we do as ’discussion’...

And while we find their jargon 'confusing'; they call it an 'arbitrary' language.

… They are the 'creative think tanks', whom we recognize as Architects. --Ar.Bansri Gandhi

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 “Seek first to understand, then to be understood”.

Says Steven Covey, the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

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" The most important communication skills are the means by which we receive messages from others. The most effective and least – used communication tools are the ears. You can learn a lot by listening."  Writes David Greusel, AIA

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Communication mishaps!

 In an office:
WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YESTERDAY
PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN 

Spotted in a toilet of an office: 

TOILET OUT OF ORDER, PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW – web search

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If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively."

-- Gerald R. Ford

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“If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.” says J. Paul Getty, American industrialist

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Funny Fact from a Professor of Finance

A professor of finance is walking on the campus with his Research Assistant.

Research Assistant: Professor, I see a $20 bill on the sidewalk. Should I pick it up?

Professor: No, of course not, if it was really there, it would already have been up.

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Capital as such is not an evil; 
it is its wrong use, which makes it an evil. 
Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Says Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948, Indian deep thinker and constant experimenter

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‘Always think how you can accomplish things economically.’ Warren buffet

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William Wayne describes in his book 'Architecture and You', 
“Architects are admittedly a strange bee. Most creative people are a bit strange at times. Architects seem to thrive for a change. One decade they go into one direction; next decade they do a complete turnaround and go in the opposite direction. This is not all bad. They are searching for new and meaningful forms, more economical solutions building, building that functions better and timely. Sometimes architect have to go back to pick up good things that were left behind. That’s human”

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Do you know the architect of your building?

A: “Your grandfather looks healthy. Who treated his illness”?
B: “Oh ya, Dr. Smith is a great doctor. He knows his job. He cured my grandfather like never before.”

A: “Your office building looks so elegant. Who was the designer of this building?”
B: “ Designer? Well, ummm... hmmm.... well,..... actually, I don't know.”-

Ar. Bansri Gandhi

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‘By participating in public life, architects have the opportunity to improve the built environment and the lives of those experience it. In this capacity, architects increase their exposure, make new contacts, learn how things get done in the public arena, and gain knowledge that can be helpful in serving the client.’

William M. Polk, AIA

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“In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: 

people, product and profits. 

Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.” Says Lee Iacocca 

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“A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn’t feel like it. 

An amateur is a man who can’t do this job when he does feel like it.”

–James Agata 1877-1974. Diary

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“ If you pay peanuts, you will get monkeys” – anonyms

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“Ask not what your office staff can do for you 

Ask what you can do for your office staff” ---Ar.KIran Gandhi

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“This company didn't train them, and the other didn't, and the one after it didn’t, who will? They will end up not knowing what to do and the minute they get hired they will ruin the job, I say we better train them”.- shorooq- Jordan, taking IT global  community

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“Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time” - quotes Bill Gates
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"Knowledge isn't like a diamond…It's more like a piece of twisted metal in a junkyard…  that suddenly takes on value, because it happens to match the right hole in your roof." – Weinberger, 2005

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A frantic client once called Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, late one rainy night to ask what she should do about a leak in her living room. Charismatic Wright allegedly replied “Put a bucket under it”. 

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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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*In his own his own epilogue, Harper (1978;409) concluded optimistically, that a long way ahead, perhaps designers, constructors and commissioners will one day be proud to call themselves “builder”.’ Architectural management practice - Stephen Emmitt 

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“Project managers function as bandleaders who pull together their players - each a specialist with individual score and internal rhythm. Under the leader's direction, they all respond to the same beat.”L.R. Sayles

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“At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.”  - Roger Staubach 

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“Think designers are odd ducks, who should be confined to their desks?

Wrong! They should sit at the CEO’S immediate right at the Boardroom table!”

– Tom peters in his book- Design

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Choice (decision), not chance, determines the destiny.’-Web Search

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“Coming together is a beginning,

Keeping together is progress,

Working together is success.” – Henry Ford

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"Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time."

 - Margaret Bonnano

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"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything." Geena Davis

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" it is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity " - Mahatma Gandhi